Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.